Worst Liveries Of All Time

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Mazda furai in ugly white. WHY!! Just unlucky..

And you can't change colour or get another one...
 
Sylux024
Mazda furai in ugly white. WHY!! Just unlucky..

And you can't change colour or get another one...
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Throng wread.

We're talking genuine motor racing liveries.
 
There was an article about this in a autumn issue of F1 racing, gave me some good laughs :)

Anyway, there is this one F1 car i remember from my childhood, can't remember which (think it is a Benetton) but it had those gay ass paint strokes on the engine cover.
 
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The B186?

Also, watch your language.
 
... Why the multicoloured tyres? Is it part of the livery or something else?
 
I'm thinking yes. Initially Benetton really wanted to be multi-coloured in order to somehow show off that they were a clothing company. As if people didn't know that already.
 
Well it looks really silly :P

I would've thought that wouldn't be allowed as the teams get given the tyres each race weekend rather than designing them themselves. I thought it might've been some weird way of differentiating between front and rears, but I don't remember seeing any archived F1 footage showing a grid full of colourfully-adorned cars >_>
 
Vegard
The fastest 962 ever produced, also one of the ugliest

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Miller 962
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Me like that one a lot.:)

Derek Bell drove it to Daytona 24 hour win?
 
Sylux024
Mazda furai in ugly white. WHY!! Just unlucky..

And you can't change colour or get another one...
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Why do you keep posting GT5 in motorsport threads...?
 
Ardius
Far too many colours and messy patterns:

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Red completely ruins it:

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Ugly car, ugly livery..again could probably do without the red:

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Toyota's F1 liveries were all very lazy (their test car had a great livery though):

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that Lotus is IMO the best looking car out there...Aside from the McLaren which has the advantage of not having the stepped nose.
 
Cowboys965
Why do you keep posting GT5 in motorsport threads...?
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He did his in the other liveries thread too. :lol:
 
TopGearFTW
Well it looks really silly :P

I would've thought that wouldn't be allowed as the teams get given the tyres each race weekend rather than designing them themselves. I thought it might've been some weird way of differentiating between front and rears, but I don't remember seeing any archived F1 footage showing a grid full of colourfully-adorned cars >_>
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The painting of the Pirelli tires was very short-lived, just a few races into the '86 season.

Boo! The Benetton was a classic; okay, the 1980s were not a high-water mark for fashion, but still...F1 liveries were quite plain Jane for many years until they tried something different.
 
Pupik
The painting of the Pirelli tires was very short-lived, just a few races into the '86 season.
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You have been watching for the past year, right? Maybe Pirelli don't paint the entide sidewall of the tyre the way they did in 1986, but each tyres has a clear coloured band to let spectators and television viewers identify the compound.
 
hawkeye122
I disagree. This livery is a major break from the Clinical designs on the Audi and Peugeot Total cars. This was, for me, the BMW Art Car of LMP1.
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I'll agree it was different, just... too different in my taste. If there was a halfway point between that and the R18's massive dullness I'd be on with that.

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I'd like this one if it had more design to it, it comes off as too "in your face", in true Jäger style I guess.
 
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Sleek Stratos
I'll agree it was different, just... too different in my taste. If there was a halfway point between that and the R18's massive dullness I'd be on with that.

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I'd like this one if it had more design to it, it comes off as too "in your face", in true Jäger style I guess.
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I like this one as well. It's not busy like a lot of liveries. They tend to be the ones I don't like.
 
Sleek Stratos
I'll agree it was different, just... too different in my taste. If there was a halfway point between that and the R18's massive dullness I'd be on with that.

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I'd like this one if it had more design to it, it comes off as too "in your face", in true Jäger style I guess.
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It's just orange with a word on it! It's not horrible, just boring.
 
Wasn't that some kind of contest to design the car of something?
 
Is that... Sarah Jessica Parker?
 
TopGearFTW
Well it looks really silly :P

I would've thought that wouldn't be allowed as the teams get given the tyres each race weekend rather than designing them themselves. I thought it might've been some weird way of differentiating between front and rears, but I don't remember seeing any archived F1 footage showing a grid full of colourfully-adorned cars >_>
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This was before the era of control tyres. I remember Paul Hembrey being quizzed about the possibilities of doing this towards the end of last season. He referred back to the Benneton as proof that it would look hideous.
 
I don't think it looks that bad, to be honest...
 
The body livery is bad, but I don't mind the sidewall colours.
 
prisonermonkeys
You have been watching for the past year, right? Maybe Pirelli don't paint the entide sidewall of the tyre the way they did in 1986, but each tyres has a clear coloured band to let spectators and television viewers identify the compound.
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I think I made it obvious in my wording that the team painted them, rather than Pirelli painting the lettering, which the tire supplier obviously does now.
 
Cowboys965
That's how I feel. *puke*
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Reminds me of when I used to skateboard. I had coloured wheels almost exactly like that. Didn't look half as bad though.
 
F1 fan
Looks worse here.

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Let's leave it in the 80's. :yuck:
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Oh no. That's the third livery in this thread that I like!!

The wheels suck big time though.
 
Sleek Stratos
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it comes off as too "in your face", in true Jäger style I guess.
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'in your face'?

Whenever I drink Jägermeister it usually ends up 'in your sink' and 'in your toilet' and 'in my hair'.
 
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